New Haikuist Club 10th issue: May 8, 1998

NAKAI, Tomo (9 years old)

今からだ稲の赤ん坊育ってく

Ima karada ine no akanbou sodatteku

Now is the time

Baby riceplants start

growing day by day

新緑の頂上に着き深呼吸

Shinryoku no choujo ni tsuki shin-kokyu

Reaching the top

of a fresh green mountain

I take a deep breath

NAKAI, Hirokazu

ドア開き鳴き声乗り込む田の蛙

Doa hiraki nakigoe nori-komu ta no kawazu

A train door opens,

From a newly planted paddy

Croaks come in

Davina Robinson-Soga

Lone petal in a breeze

dances for an admiring girl,

landing i her hair

AKINAGA, Eriko

Jerry Gordon

An old man

studies a colorful box

of roach traps

Talking with her friend,

a high school girl ignores

her ringing phone